Lands ceded. Reservation. Property. Exemption instrument known as a floating battery or surf-boat, nor use such device or instrument with intent to kill ducks or fowls as aforesaid. Any person violating this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, in addition, be liable to a penalty of not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each offense, to be recovered as provided by section twenty-one of chapter four hundred and seventy-four of the Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-two. S3. All other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. S4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 689. AN ACT ceding jurisdiction over certain lands on Staten PASSED May 10, 1865; by a two-thirds vcte. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows. S1. The jurisdiction of this state over all that portion of the marine hospital grounds on Staten Island which may hereafter be conveyed to the United States for light-house and other purposes by the commissioners of the land-office under the authority of any law of this state, is hereby ceded to the United States, subject to the restrictions hereinafter mentioned. S2. The said consent is given and the said jurisdiction ceded upon the express condition that the State of New York shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the said property, so far as that all civil and criminal process which may issue under the laws or authority of the State of New York, may be executed thereon in the same way and manner as if such consent had not been given or jurisdiction ceded, except so far as such process may affect the real or personal property of the United States. S3. The jurisdiction hereby ceded shall not vest in any respect, to any portion of said property, until the United States shall have acquired the title thereto by purchase or otherwise. from taxes. $ 4. The said property, when acquired by the United States, shall be and continue forever thereafter, exonerated and discharged from all taxes, assessments, and other charges which may be levied or imposed under the authority of this state; but the jurisdiction hereby ceded, and the exemption from taxation hereby granted, shall continue in respet to said property so long as the same shall remain the property of the United States and be used for public purposes, and no longer. S 5. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 690. AN ACT in relation to the Bureau of Military Statistics. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: S 1. The title of the bureau of military statistics shall hereafter be the bureau of military record, and by that name it shall be known. bureaus; S2. There may be organized in any county of the state an Auxiliary auxiliary to the bureau of military record, to be denominated their objects. the auxiliary bureau of military record, for the county of (uaming the county) for the following objects: To collect and furnish to the bureau of military record, and to preserve in permanent form for the county, a record of the military ser vices of those who have volunteered or been mustered, or who may hereafter volunteer or be mustered into the service of the general government from the county since the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and a brief civil history of such person, so far as the same can be ascertained. A record of the services of the several regiments, Record of companies or batteries raised therein, including an account of regiments. their organization and subsequent history; and an account of the voluntary aid afforded by the several towns or cities of the county. Any number of persons of full age, provided Application they shall exceed in number the towns of the county, who bureau of shall desire to associate themselves for these objects, may record. make, sign and file, in the bureau of military record, and in the office of the clerk of the county in which the business of such auxiliary bureau is to be conducted, an application in writing, to the chief of the bureau of military record, in which shall be stated the name or title by which such auxiliary, if established, shall be known, and referring to this section for the objects thereof, but such application shall be signed by at least one person from each town in the county. to be filed in military of chief of military $3. Upon filing an application as aforesaid, the chief of the Certificate bureau of military record may grant a certificate as below, bureau of naming therein a superintendent, and also naming a board of record. managers, consisting of one from each town, all of whom shall be recommended to him by the person signing the application; such certificate shall set forth that proper steps have been taken for the formation of such auxiliary bureau, and that such auxiliary bureau of military record, for the county of (naming the county) is accordingly established, on condition however, that the said auxiliary bureau shall, at least once in three months, transmit to the bureau of military record such information as may be called for thereby; but in case the when chief objects for which said auxiliary bureau is established shall be may annul of bureau organiza tion. certificate of neglected for the period of six months, the chief of the bureau of military record may annul the certificate of organization and establish another auxiliary bureau in the room thereof for the same county. The superintendent and managers, together with enrolled members, may annually elect from the officers or membership a board of managers, and the board of managers thus elected may, at their first meeting, elect a superintendent. A report of the proceedings of each aunnal meeting, with the names of the officers elected, shall be filed in the bureau of military record, and also in the office of the county clerk. Limit of expense to upon state. $ 4. No expense exceeding three dollars per town shall be be imposed imposed upon the state in collecting the statistics and other information for which the auxiliary bureau is organized, nor shall that sum, nor any part thereof, be payable unless an account, setting forth in detail the voluntary aid afforded by citizens of the respective towns in the county shall be deposited in the bureau of military record. If such account shall be satisfactory to the chief of the bureau of military record, he may certify the account of the superintendent of such auxiliary bureau therefor. Blanks to be prepared by chief of bureau, Duty of town-clerks to mako records of 5. Blanks for a detailed statement of moneys raised and of moneys paid for every purpose connected with the war, by towns, cities and counties, as well by loans as by tax, classified by years and objects, the number of men raised under the several calls of the president, the number of men to whom bounty has been paid, and the rate of bounty per man, together with such other information as falls within the cognizance of officers of towns, cities or counties, shall be prepared by the chief of the bureau of military record and distributed to such officers. $ 6. It shall be the duty of the town-clerk of every town of this state, as soon as may be after the passage of this act, Boldiers, etc. on receiving suitable blanks from the chief of the bureau of military record, to make out a full and complete record of the names of all the soldiers and officers who composed his town's quotas of the troops furnished to the United States during the present rebellion, stating the place of residence, where known, the time of enlistment of each, and the number and desiguation of his regiment and company, and so far as possible all who have died in the service, and stating, when practicable, at what time and place, and the cause of death, whether by disease, accident or on the field of battle. One copy of such record shall be deposited in the bureau of military record within four months after the passage of this act, and one copy shall be preserved among the records of the town. And said town-clerks shall be entitled to a reasonable compensation for their services and expenses in performing the duties devolved upon them by the provisions of this act, to be paid by their respective towns, in the same manner as other town charges. Records, where to be filed. supervisors thereto. $ 7. To the end that the record above required of town- Duty of clerks may be complete, it shall be the duty of supervisors to in reference afford all necessary information, as far as they may be capable of doing so, to the town-clerks, and if the town records in the keeping of town-clerks do not show such fact, they shall add or cause to be added opposite the name of each soldier or officer the amount of bounty paid to him by the town, or by the county, if the county bounty was disbursed through the supervisor. And it shall be the duty of the supervisor to furnish to the bureau of military record a detailed statement of moneys raised and paid by the town, the aggregate number of men furnished thereby, and such other facts as may properly be required of supervisors, on his being furnished with the blanks provided for in section five of this act. County 8. It shall be the duty of the county treasurers to furnish to Duty of the chief of the bureau of military record a statement of the treasurers. amount of moneys raised by tax and by loans, and the amount expended for every purpose connected with the war, classified by years and by objects, together with particulars about loans; and it shall be the duty of boards of supervisors to examine, and, if correct, to formally approve, these statements of the county treasurers, and if incorrect to cause them to be corrected and filed in the bureau of military record. mayors and councils. 9. It shall be the duty of mayors and common councils Duty of of cities to furnish or cause to be furnished to the chief of the common bureau of military record a detailed statement similar to that required of town-clerks, and they shall prepare or cause to be prepared, upon the written application of the chief of the bureau of military record, statements, duly classified, of moneys raised and expended for war purposes, the number of men furnished under the several calls, and such other facts as fall within their official cognizance. tion of etc. $10. Supervisors, county treasurers and officers of cities, compensaor persous employed by the mayor and common councils for supervisors, that purpose, shall be entitled to a reasonable compensation for their services and expenses in performing the duties devolved upon them by the provisions of this act, to be paid by their respective towns, counties or cities, in the same manner as other town, county or city charges. for regi S 11. Any regiment of volunteers or of the national guard New flags of this state, that has been or hereafter may be called into ments. the service of the United States, may receive, by the order of the commander-in-chief, new colors in exchange for those that have been worn in the field; and it shall be the duty of the quartermaster-general, approved by the commander-inchief, to issue, upon the requisition of the commandant of such regiment, one new flag for each flag returned for exchange, upon the production of the certificate of the chief of the bureau of military record that the old flag, with a-history thereof, has been duly deposited in his office, except it shall satisfactorily appear that the old flag has been lost, in which case a new flag may be furnished in lieu thereof, said flags to be paid for out of funds under the control of the commander-in-chief. $12. The sum of nineteen thousand two hundred dollars, for the fiscal year ending September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, payable by the treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller, for salaries, printing, stationery and necessary expenses, payable on the certificate of the chief of the bureau. 13. This act shall take effect immediately. Ante, pp. 77, 229. Organiza tion of CHAP. 691. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act for the incorporation of companies formed to navigate the lakes and rivers," passed April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act for the incorporation of companies to navigate the lakes and rivers,' passed April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fiftyfour," passed April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty one. PASSED May 11, 1865. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The first section of the act entitled "An act for the incorporation of companies formed to navigate the lakes and rivers," passed April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fiftyfour, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 1. At any time hereafter any five or more persons, who companies. may desire to form a company for the purpose of building for their own use, equipping, furnishing, fitting, purchasing, chartering or owning steam, sail or other boats, ships, or vessels, or property, to be used in lawful business, commerce, trade or navigation upon the lakes or rivers, and for the carriage, transportation or storing of lading, freights, mails, property or passengers on such lakes and rivers, may make, sign and acknowledge before some officer competent to take the acknowledgment of deeds, and file in the office of the clerk of the county in which the principal office for the management of the business of the company shall be situated, and a duplicate thereof in the office of the secretary of state, a certificate, in writing, in which shall be stated the corporate name of such company, except that such corporate name shall |